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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
HEALTH
COOKING
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CARE OF CHILDREN
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:Huying Food By Grade
..Obviates Uncertainty
Marketing by grade takes the haz-
ard out of buying commodities. The
• nonsumess' safeguard is made pos-
•-sible through the laws promulgated
• by the Dominion Department of Ag-
- rieulture, with the result that the pur-
'ehaser who buys according to grade
- knows beforehand the quality of what
he is buying. Grading also• is benefi-
cial tb the producer for he knows
exactly what is expected of him, as
- for example in the case of canned
tomatoes. Under the provisions of
... the Meat and Canned Foods Act of
''Canada, canned tomatoes are sold in
•four grades and must conform to the
following conditions:
"Fancy Quality Tomatoes" must be
• packed from selected prima, clean,
sound, red -ripe and reasonably whole
- tomatoes. The product must be of
:good flavour, red in colour, free from
pieces of skin, cores, black spotsor
sur scald, and must contain at least
• '65 per cent drained tomato solids.
"Choice Quality Tomatoes" must be
packed from selected /clean, sound,
red -ripe tomatoes. The product must
be of good flavour, fairly red in col-
• our, free from •pieces of skin, cores,
black spots or sun scald, and the
majority of the tomatoes whole or in
large pieces, and must contain. at
least 55 per cent drained tomato sol-
ids.
"Standard Quality Tomatoes" must
be racked from field run of clean,
"sound, ripe tomatoes. The product
'Must be .of good colour, reasonably
fres from skins, cores, black spots or
sun scald, and must contain at least
•45 per cent drained solids. I
"Second Quality Tomatoes" must
be packed from sound, clean, reason-
ably ripe tomatoes, The product must
be well peeled, cored and trimmed,
and free from skins, cores, black
spots or sun scald, but need not nec-
essarily be uniform in 'colour.
The factor of solidity refers to the
proportion of tomato neat to juice
present, The rating of this factor is
based on the percentage of tomato
meat after draining the sample on a
screen two meshes to the inch for
one-half minute, the wire of the
screen being approximately 1-32 of
an inch in diameter,
Infor7nationbn all food commodi-
ties that ase graded according to reg-
ulations administered by the Domin-
ion Department of Agriculture is gi-
ven in a pamphlet "The C'onsumer's
Guide on How to Buy Graded. Foods"
a copy of which can be obtained by
writing to the Publicity and Exten-
sion Branch, Dominion Department of
Agriculture, Ottawa.
The Cost of Going to
Hospital
The average Canadian is 'a hospital
patient about once in sixteen years.
The married man, with two children
must have a hospital bill to pay about
once every four years, and since the
average stay in hospital is about
three weeks, it is a sizeable item of
expense, without ' counting doctor's
fees and medicine bills.
A place in a public ward costs a-
bout two dollars a day; a semi -pri-
vate room costs a little under three
dollars a day, and a private room
costs five dollars. These are ave-
rage prices for the country as a
whole; provincial; averages range
from $1.50 to $6.00 A trip, to the
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PICTURE ARRANGElnirt'i
•A simple arrangement, but a good one, partly because the same curved
'`Inc Is repeated in the boys' backs and the back of the chair. This gives
rhythm to the picture.
A RANY snapshooters read about
"LYI picture composition, and decide
It is something subtle and "arty,"
sand •pretty much of a puzzle. But it
needn't bea puzzle, at all. Compost -
'tion is simply pleasing arrange.
Mean.
The woman who arranges flowers
in a bowl, or furniture in a room, is
"'composing" in much the same way
Sas an antist composes a picture.
Both are seeking balance, harmony,
•and an attractive arrangement that
appeals to the eye,
Picture composition can be very
subtle, but it does not haveto be. As
t rule, the simpler the arrangement,
Vie more effective it is.
Clearness is the first need of an
'effective picture arrangement,. One
way to obtain this is to seek eon -
Vast, Por iustance, if agray object
'Ss picturedagainst a gray back-
ground, the two tend to "run to-
gether." But if a gray object is pia -
lured against a white background,
With lights so arranged that it casts
a black shadow on the white back-
ground, there is good contrast, and
'the object "stands out." A good ex-
ample of contrast would be a light-
%aired person pictured against a,
reaekground of deep shadow.
Another thing, is to avoid confus-
ing lines that "lead out" of the Pic -
tare. Lines have a definite "pulling
power," especially if . two run to-
gether to make a point near the pie-
ture edge. Suppose, for instance, you
snap a picture of a cat's -face and
want the eyesto stand out. In that
case, the cat's sharp -pointed ears
need to be in shadow, or the picture
should be trimmed so that the tips
of the ears are cut off --otherwise,
they will draw attention upward
away from the cat's eyes.
The shapes and outlines of things
play a great: part in establishing the
"feel" of a picture. A "pyramid" ar-
rangement gives weight and stabil-
ity, while slender forms, suck as a
flower with a thin stalk standing in
a slim bud -vase, suggest itghtness.
Lines differ greatly in their effect.
Low, level lines suggest quietness
and sadness, while tall straight lines,
Ouch as the trunks of forest trees,
suggest dignity and grandeur.
Curved lines have grace, eapocially
the S-curve such as is seen in the
arch of a horse's neck or a swan's
neck, When the same shape of line
is repeated several times in a plc -
Ouse, thearrangementtends to take
on a pleasing "pattern quality."
Try choosing your viewpoint so
that the lines and forms in your pia-,
tures, have a definite character. The
results will please you.
178 John van Guilder
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EGGS •
Eggs can be served so tastily in
the ordinary ways in which they are
used, such as boiled ,poached or fried,
that many people ntay not realize the
great adaptability of this food and
that it can be used as the basis of a
wide variety of dishes. However, with
the true food value of eggs becoming
better understood as a result of nu-
tritional research, new ways of pre-
paring eggs are of interest. Here are
a few dishes in 'which they may be
served.
French Omelet
Beat the eggs with a fork, adding
one tablespoonful of cream and one
of water for each egg used. Alto a
heavy frying pan, put plenty of but-
ter and let it get sizzling hot. Then
pour in the eggs and lessen the heat.
Amnediately start shaking the pan
back and forth, and roll the omelet
as soon as the edge is firm and while
it is still wet. The inside of the ome-
let cooks while it is being removed
from the pan. To roll the omelet, lift
one. edge and roll it over. Tilt the
skillet in the direction the omelet is
to be rolled, and assist in the rolling.
with a spatula or knife. Slip the
omelet from the skillet to a hot plat-
ter and garnish.
Poached Eggs Vienna
Take two fresh eggs and poach
thein in mills, with a pinch of salt.
Toast two thin slices .of bread, and
fry two strips of bacon. crisp. Place
the poached eggs on the toast with
a strip of bacon on either side. Heat
three-quarters of a cups of cream; hot
but not boiling, and pour it over the
eggs, bacon and toast. Salt and pep-
per to taste.
Eggs au Betirre Noir,
Toast one slice of bread nice and
brown ,butter and place an platter or
plate. Fry two eggs in butter,cov-
ering during process of cooking, In
frying pan until; the desired medium,
"soft", "medium",- or "hard" is at-
tained, then remove and place 00 bub -
toted toast. Place in the pan in which
the eggs have been fried 1 table-
spoonful of thoroughly melted butter
and when hot acM 1 tablespoonful of
Worcester sauce, toss in pan until
thoroughly mixed, mut: over eggs and
serve,
operating room costs eight dollar's.
The hospitals report that it casts
them considerably more than three
dollars a 'day to keep a patient, ---
namely,
namely, some forty cents more than
they charge their patients in semi-
private rooms. So this business of
caring for the sick can hardly be con-
sidered a money -making proposition:
There is further evicience to this ef-
fect in the fact- that during the de-
pression years when other costs of
.living drooped substantially there
was very little change in the cost of
going to hospital. Apparently the
hospital could notafford to reduce
their rates.
The foregoing is taken from a re>
port issued by the Internal Trade
Brandt of the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics, Department of Trade and
Commerce.,
G-''HILDREIN of all ages
CROWN
BRANDthrive oCORN SYRUP.
They never tire of its delici-
ous flavor and it really is so
good for them—so give the
children "CROWN BRAND'.,
every day.
Leading BRAND , physicians pros
pounce"CROWNI
CORN SYRUP a most satis-
factory carbohydrate to use
as a milk modifier in the
feeding of tiny infants and
;se an energy producing food
for growing children.
THE FAMOUS
ENERGY "
FOOD
The\
CANADA STARCH
COMPANY Limited
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Breakfast Foods Offer
Wide Variety
Canadians have a very wide choice
in their breakfast foods. They may
have them made from wheat, corn,
oats, rice, soy bean rye, flax and per-
haps
erhaps other grains. The feeds may be
bought uncooked, partially cooked, or
cooked and ready to serve. If the
first, they may be rolled, cracked or
ground; if the last they may be ea-
sweetened or partially sweetened, and
may be flaked, . shredded, puffed,
crumbled or otherwise prepared.
Relied oats which became popular
a quarter of a century or more ago
and took the place largely of old fash-
ioned oatmeal, still seems to retain
more devoteesthan any of the oth-
ers. It is difficult to say how much
wheat is cooked for porridge, as any
farmer with a crusher can prepare it
at home; and it is hard to say how
much corn meal goes into mush, but it
seems likely that most of the rolled
oats is meant for the breakfast table,
and we use soinething like 80 million
pounds of it in a year, as compared.
with some 30 million ,pounds of pre-
pared breakfast foods of all kinds.
Price may often be a factor in deter-
mining choice, for the prepared foods
on the average, cost three or four
times as much as oats per pound.
Measured by dollars, we eat more of
the prepared foods than oats;
We sell a good deal of both kinds
to the United Kingdom .but the re-
cords do not tell us whether the oats
are all for Scotland., Habits have
probably changed since Dr. Johnson
described oats as a food for horses in
England, for men in Scotland, to
which the reply was where can you
find such Horses and where can you
find such men.
Our Costly Governments
The need, for less' government in
Canada is again brought to our mind
by a letter appearing in a Toronto
newspaper, which mentions the fol-
lowing striking facts:
Om ten governments . and nearly
4,000 municipalities collected in 1934
about $690,000,000 in taxes. They
spent it all and still faced a deficit
of $200,000,000,
The Senate of Canada recently dis-
persed, with its agenda cleaned up,
after its 96 members had collected
$4,000 apiece for their services -
5884,000,
The sun of $4,000 is paid yearly. to
246 members of the House of Coin-
mons, $980,000 in all.
. We discover that in the Federal
Government and Senate, and nine
provincial governments, Canada has
roughly 850 legislators, who are paid
51,650,000 to run or over -run this
country.
In England, the House of Commons
contains 615 members, who are paid
52.000 apiece Or a total of $1,230,000,
while Cabinet members receive a to-
tal of $420,000, making 51,650,000 in
all.
The English House of Commons, of
course, represents a population of 48,-
000,000 compared with 11,000,000 in
Canada, and it also guides the destin-
ies of the British Empire with a total
population of 480,000,000 people!
In Canada we have to maintain 10
seats of Government, ten parliament
buildings, 10 sets of civil service em-
ployees!
Dairy Products Report Re-
veals Decrease In
Production
Production of both creamery butter
and factory cheese in Ontario was a-
gain lower in February this year.
Production of butter was down 230,-
000
30,000 lbs., and production for the first
two months of 1038 was down 688,000
lbs. as compared with a year ago,
while the production of cheese for the
same two periods showed a decrease
of 240,000 ' lbs. and 559,000 lbs. re
specbively.
In Huron County the production of
creamery butter dropped 6,610 lbs; in.
February, the tatal production being
223,835 ;lbs. as. compared with 280,,
445 lbs. in 1932. Figures for the first
two months of 1988 show a• decrease
of 36,912 lbs. ,
Production for the whole province
for the first two months of this year
reveals a decrease of 230,214 lbs, But-
ter stocks for all Canada were 10,-
324,000
0,324,000 lbs. less at T'ebivany 1st com-
pared with a year ago., •
STREET CARS
A Popular Mode. of Transportation
The year 1937 was the 50th anni-
versaty of the street ear as we know
it today, -namely, the electric trots
ley car. It is so thoroughly 'taken
for granted by ewy people nowadays, a set of new interests that may be
we havetrouble in realizing that it
is younger than many of those who
ride on; it. In some countries where
in use now, where there used to be
2,200. •
There is a great deal of truth in
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANIES
15 CANADA
POSTURE
The upright position has many ad-
vantages but, unfortunately, there are
persons who, for one reason or an-
other,
mother, have developed such poor poe-
ture as to be, handicapped in life.
To a considerable extent, good pos-
ture reflects good health, and when
conditions are such as to interfere
with good posture, it is no exaggera-
tion to say that such conditions are
likely unhealthy.
The child who spends many hours
each day at a school desk which is too
low for him and which thus forces
him to slouch down to use hie desk is
likely to have stooped shoulders.
We might say that while this situ-
ation can be dealt with by having at
least two or three sizes of desks, in
no case should the school child be
kept sitting for long periods. Long
periods of sitting lead to a weariness
which is expressed in drooping- shoul-
ders.
The posture of women has improv-
ed since they have given up the gar-
ments which were used to constrict
the figure. At the sante time; wo-
men have relieved themselves of the
burden of innumerable . superfluous
garments. '
Poor posture is often the result of
!11 fitted shoes. Feet vary in size,
shape and position. That is why care.
should be taken to fit the shoe to
the foot rather than to attempt to
Mould the foot to the shoe.
Good posture promotes good health
because it allows for the organs of
the body to function in their normal
position, whereas poor :posture may
constrict and limit action while pres-
sing organs out of their normal
place in the body.
Good posture is a personal asset in
that it gives to the persona sense of
well-being and comfort, and a certain
desirable assurance. Good posture
will not solve the health problems of
the world, but it will help to prevent
some of the ills which afflict man-
kind.
Healthy muscles, well-built proper
food and kept strong through exer-
cise are essential to hold the body in
good position. Weak muscles cause
slouching shoulders and protruding
abdomens, with narrow chests.
Good food, a reasonable amount of
exercise and sufficient rest, together
with proper clothing, promote good
posture and: good health.
the saying "The safest place is on
the'street car" for a fatal accident to
a passenger is a rare event compar-
ed with street accidents while walk-
ing or motoring. Some years there
is not one in the whole of Canada.
electric power is cheap, it has been
brought into use for main -line, cross-
country railroads, but in Canada its
use is practically confined to cities
find their suburbs,
There are 40 different elcetrie rail-
ways in Canada, and they carry 600
million paying .passengers in a year.
Counting the free rides, it means an
average of something like 160 street
ear trins in a year for .everybody in
the cities where they operate, These
figures include rides on the buses
operated by the street railway corn -
patties, an increasingly important
part of their service in the last ten
years, but even so, it is plain that
the street car remains the chief
meansof conveyance for a great
many :Canadians. The drop in pas-
sengers during depression years was
about 30 per cent but since 1933 the
number has been going up again,
There are about;, 1,800 miles of track
Readjustments After Forty
1. Slow down, but without giving
up career, wok or status: •
2. Get out of the rut of routine into
which people of narked ability in
some. cases especially tend to sinks,
3. Find fresh enthusiasm for tasks
which, having been performed, hund-
reds of times, have lost their edge.
4. Discard certain habits, espeeially
social practices, which wear.you out
needlessly.
5. Use your accumulated wisdom
more and your muscles less.
6. Anticipate later years and the,
inevitable easing out of your career,
which may be disastrous, tailless you
create, well 'in. advance of retirement,
pursued after sixty.
'7. Keep in touch with the day's
events, with the latest' discoveries,
and with the world's exciting trends,
in order to continue' sensitive and
alert --,'Health;"
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They: Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful
and Inspiring.
I CAN TRUST
I cannot know why suddenly the Nay, never once to feel we are aione,
storm While the great human heart around
Should rage so fiercely round me in us lies;
• its wrath; To make the smile on other lips our
But this I know—God watches all own,
my path, To live upon the light in others' eyes;
And I can trust. To breathe without a doubt the
pid .air
Of that most perfect Iove that knows
no pain:
To say—I love you ---only, and not
care
Whether the love comes back to us
again.
I have no power to look across the Divinest self -forgetfulness, at first
tide, A task, and then a tonic, then a need
To see while here the land beyond To greet with open hands the best
the river; and worst,
shall be God's And only for another's wounds to
bleed:
That is to see the beauty that God
—Exchange. meant
Wrapped round with Iife ineffably
content:
HOPE ON --Archibald Lampntan,
THE LARGEST LIFE ,'
I may not draw aside the. mystic'veil
That hides the unknown future from
my sight,
Nor know if for me ;waits the dark
or light;
But I can trust.
But this I know -I
forever;
So I
can trust.
Hope on! The sun's still shining
Although the clouds are grey.
The sun has shone a thousand years
' And clouds have rolled away.
Hope on! Though winter's with us
And all the flowers are dead,
A thousand springs have followed on,
A thousand winters sped.
Hope on! Though pain may rack us
And death may stack the earth,
We still have all the wondesmen
And mystery of birth.
Hope on! For each oppression
That holds us in its scope
There is a counter force at work.
Against despair there's hope.
--Prescott Shortt
GLORY TO THEM
Glory to them, the toilers of the
earth
Who wrought with knotted hands,
in wood and stone,
Dreams their unlettered minds could
not give birth
And symmetries their souls had
ever known.
THE SACRAMENT OF WATER
Crystal clear from the throne of God'
Flows the River, the Shining River,
For ever full, for ever free,
It floweth everlastingly
Through the banks of Time to the
-. Boundless Sea
Of love indwelling Eternity,
Praise to God in running water,
Gleaming, glancing, runnig water! 1
Crystal clear its joyous cheer,
Dreaming, dancing, running water;
Amber -bright all slashed with white,
Sweet, romaneing, running water;
Give God praise for all fair water;
His sweet grace is running water, ,
God's sweet grace is running- water,
A11 fair sparkling, running water—
Bubbling spring from rock or sod,
Goodly thing --the gift of Godl-- '
Babbling praises as it flows,
Gathering graces as it grows,
Scattering joys where'er it goes --
Praise to Gad in running water!
Blithely o'er its shallows purpling,
Lithely through its narrows swirling;
Glory to them, the artisans, who Round its mossy boulders curling,
spread Glooming, gleaming, spooning,
Cathedrals like brown lace before creaming,
With new life so richly teeming
Per the thirsty earth's redeeming;
GiVe God praise for -running water,
For all fair, fresh, running water!
—John Oxenhans,
the sun,
Who could not build a rhyme, but
reared instead
The Doric grandeur of the Parthe-
non!
I never cross a marble portico,
Or lift my eyes where stained
glass windows steal
ST. PATRICK'S BIRTHDAY
From virgin sunlight moods of deep-
er
eep• Oh the eighth of March it was some
er.glaw, people say,
Or walk dream -peopled streets, ex- That St. Patrick at midnight, be first
saw the day.
While others declare 'twos the ninth
he was born,
Who gave us beauty for a crust of, And 'twos all a mistake betwixt mid -
bread. night and morn,
• —Anderson M. Scruggs.
Now the first faction fight in Oul
Ireland, they say,
THE VICTOR Some fought for the eighth, for the
One who. never turned his back, but ninth more would die,
marched breast forward, And who didn't believe there they
blackened his eye.
Never doubted clouds would breaks
Never dreamed, though right where And thus they disputed, from mor7iin'
worsted, wrong would triumph, till night,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to • And every dispute ended up with a
fight better, j fight;
Sleep to' wake. ' Till 1%ather Muicality who shower(
No, at'noonday in the bustle o£'man's their sins
work -time, Said that no One could, e'er have birth.
Greet the ,unseen, with a cheer! days but twins.
Bid him forward, breast and back as Says lie, "Bays, stop your fightin' for
either should be, I eight and for nine;
"Strive and thrive!" Cry "speed, Don't bo always dividin but some -
fight an, fare ever ( times combine.
There as here!" I Combine .eight and nine --seventeen
—Robert Browning.1 is the mark,
Let that bo his birthday," "Amen,"
says the clerk.
eepb to feel •
4. hush of reverence for that vast
dead
YOUTH
"If it wasn't twins, sure all history
Youth is like a youngbulb, hard and will show
brown; - That he's better than any two saints
Living its life in secret,' dark, far that we know."
down iSe they all took a dra which Com»
Below the surface, Hard, but to avert! plated theirbliss,P,
I p
Alt; alien touch, that precious life And they've kept up rile practices„
might .hurt.' 1 from that day to this.
Give youth but love -warmed life of Samuel Lover,
sympathy
In which to grow; where roots, (all
frailty) "It is apparent that all the Cana -
May grope and know no fear, Give deanexporters' of dressed poultry are
youth but this :responding to the representations of
And then leave it to bloom. There is the Poultry Services, Dominion, De• -
a bliss • partment of Agriculture, to improve
In watching true fruition. So we see their export packs of chickens and a
Youth (and the bulb) reach true continuance of this policy will event -
maturity. ually land us at the objective we are'
The flowers, so beautiful, needed but all trying to attain", states W ,A,
vision, Wilson, Animal Products Trade Com -
Though the brown bulb might call missioner for Canada in London, Eng -
forth base derision. Iand, in a recent letter to the Depart-,
—Myrtle Corcoran Watts. ment